Unlike previous years, Apple will have a big presence at the South By Southwest music extravaganza, bringing its popular iTunes Festival stateside for the first time. The five nights of concerts will be live-streamed in the iTunes Store and iTunes Fe...

Working out has never been so sadistic. Carrot Fit is a new app that will reward you if you meet your weight-loss goals, but seriously chew you out if you slip up. The brainchild of iOS developer Grailr, Carrot Fit knows more than 2,000 phrases -- so...

After breaking the record for the most-watched Super Bowl halftime show ever with 115.3 million viewers, Bruno Mars has roared his way up the iTunes sales charts on Monday. The 28-year-old's sophomore album, Unorthodox Jukebox, which recently won Bes...

Whether you're alone on Christmas, don't celebrate the holiday or just need to escape your relatives for a few hours, there are plenty of things to do on Dec. 25 to entertainingly pass the time. We've highlighted five simple activities you can take p...

Beyoncé's fifth studio album, Beyoncé, which was released exclusively on iTunes on Friday without any promotional marketing, has sold 828,773 copies in three days. (UPDATE: Sales surpassed 1 million copies Wednesday, Apple confirmed to Mashable.) The...

Seventeen-year-old Lorde, best known for her breakout viral hit "Royals," unexpectedly dropped a new single on iTunes titled "No Better." The song arrived Friday, just hours after Beyoncé surprised everyone with a secret album featuring 14 songs and ...

Beyoncé surprised the world early Friday morning with the unanticipated release of her fifth studio album on iTunes. Described as a "visual album," the self-titled album features 14 tracks and 14 videos to go along with each song as well as three add...

Spotify may eventually make your iTunes and Pandora accounts obsolete, but don’t delete them just yet. Spotify's introduction of free streaming on-demand music to mobile devices, announced Wednesday, will not cause an overnight collapse of the major ...

Britney Spears is letting fans stream her upcoming Britney Jean album free on iTunes a week before its Dec. 3 release. Apple often streams major albums in advance of their releases to encourage preorders, placing the play button directly beside the b...

The iTunes store now lets customers donate $5 to $200 to victims of Typhoon Haiyan via the American Red Cross. The storm smashed into the Philippines over the weekend of Nov. 9, leaving at least 1,774 dead, 2,487 injured and 660,000 displaced, accord...

"ARTPOP" by Lady Gaga “could mean anything,” as sung in the title track on the album. With the release of Lady Gaga’s third studio album “ARTPOP,” Gaga and her TechHaus team have built an intriguing companion app. The main question is whether the ART...

Podcasts have a serious discovery problem. As a medium, it's hot right now. It’s building loyal and potentially lucrative communities around niche topics. Independent producers are finding success, fame and even a little money. But as a technology an...

At Tuesday's iPad event, Apple gave a brief glimpse at how iTunes Radio is performing since launching the streaming music service on Sept. 18. Tim Cook revealed that iTunes Radio has 20 million "listeners," who have listened to 1 billion songs, so fa...

A group of Doctor Who fans have uncovered a cache of 106 long-lost Doctor Who episodes in Ethiopia, according to recent reports. But what do we know for sure, and what’s just hearsay? The Mirror‘s Sunday People reports that Whovians tracked down a ca...

October is a big month for Miley Cyrus, who already has had a standout year for her commercially successful new songs as well as her provocative antics. To thank her fans, the 20-year-old twerker is letting them stream her upcoming Bangerz album free...

Attention, football fans: Your favorite NFL star is about to become your personal DJ on Apple's new streaming music service iTunes Radio. Pepsi told Mashable on Wednesday that it launched #FanEnough, a series of iTunes Radio stations curated by 16 NF...

If you want to access iTunes Radio in your car, you still have to sit tight. But the new Internet streaming platform is certainly top of mind for car manufacturers, including Nissan which announced it is the first vehicle company to partner with Appl...

New streaming music service iTunes Radio debuted Wednesday, when iOS 7 became available. Though users can create custom radio stations based on songs and artists, they can also discover music through featured stations. Among the featured stations are...

From Evernote to Shazam, it’s a big day for app updates. iOS 7 is now available for download, and many of the App Store’s biggest players updated their apps accordingly. iOS 7 represents a complete re-imagination of Apple’s mobile operating system. T...

Apple updated iTunes to version 11.1 Wednesday, bringing a number of new features to the music software. The biggest update: iTunes Radio. iTunes Radio is a new streaming radio offering from Apple that lets you build stations around your favorite art...

You probably don’t remember what you dreamed about last night. A new app called Shadow is attempting to change that, offering an easy way for you to record your dreams, track them, and discover what they might all mean. According to Shadow, 95% of dr...

Apple continues to tease its forthcoming streaming music service, iTunes Radio, which the company introduced in June. On Tuesday during its iPhone event, Apple announced the service will launch when iOS 7 becomes available on Sept. 18. The service ha...

Just like during MTV's Video Music Awards, performances by Lady Gaga and Katy Perry will bookend the iTunes Festival, while Justin Timberlake and other artists will take the stage in the middle of the month-long concert series. Gaga will kick off the...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. A report from The Wall Street Journal suggests N...

iTunes kicked off a massive sale on movies on Tuesday, slashing prices on favorites such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy -- now going for just $17.99. Among the deals on movie bundles are all 10 of the original Star Trek movies, available in HD for ...

Apple's iTunes Store is receiving an avalanche of complaints for the way it has promoted and sold Breaking Bad season five to season-pass subscribers. Some who bought the pass for the popular AMC show's final season, which started in July 2012 before...

Now the Apple Store app comes with a little extra oomph: a free download. Starting Friday, Apple will offer one free app, iTunes download or iBook every week through its iOS app. The app is traditionally used to purchase physical items from Apple’s s...

The trusty iTunes library can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. The free, pre-installed app has fairly clean design and can handle a large library. However, sometimes iTunes can be glitchy with long reaction times and disrupted flow. And, w...

Apple's iTunes said "Hi-yo" to footage from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as Carson Entertainment Group on Tuesday unfurled 15 hours of archived clips from the iconic late-night TV show exclusively for download on iTunes. "Heeeeeere's John...

The way singers' voices get from their mouths to your ears becomes easier than ever because of the music-distribution services sprouting up online. Gone are the days when consumers were required to listen to the radio or purchase physical copies of s...

Sometimes it's the small annoyances in life that really drive you nuts. The little glitches and quirks that bug you in a minor way, but on a regular basis. If having multiple copies of the same song in your iTunes library is one of those bugs, we can...

With big-name summer albums such as Born Sinner, Yeezus, Magna Carta Holy Grail, Collapsible Lung, Random Access Memories, Hall of Fame, Halcyon Days and many, many more dropping, maybe now's a good time to re-evaluate how we discover and consume our...

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